I got a Vonage phone here for my wife. It is is the Cisco ATA unit. For
what it is worth, we did not have to open up any port ranges on the the
firewall in m0n0wall; works fine. We do have traffic shaping in place for
the phone....using m0n0wall.
Ernie
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From: <ryanag at zoominternet dot net>
To: "Christopher M. Iarocci" <iarocci at eastendsc dot com>
Cc: "Jesus De la Garza" <jesus dot delagarza at gmail dot com>;
<m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Vonage configuration with m0n0
>I have one of the Cisco ATA's also, VOnage does not use them anymore
> though.
>
> Probably shaping/rate limiting traffic other than vonage so your
> internet pipe doesn't get saturated will have a more positive effect
> than anything else.
>
> Opening ports is a bit difficult, as the Vonage service initiates calls
> on a few ports, but actual calls bounce around ports a lot.
>
>
> "Each router manufacturer has a different process for Port Forwarding
> (also called Port Opening), but in each case, you must always specify
> two port ranges to be opened:
> * 5060 – 5061 (UDP)
> * 10000 – 20000 (UDP)"
>
> http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_article.php?article=89
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:26 -0500, Christopher M. Iarocci wrote:
>> Jesus De la Garza wrote:
>>
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I just got my vonage kit and wodnering what do i need to do to start
>> >working using my firewall. I've just a month with m0n0 installed and
>> >it works great with my network, however as i just receive my voip kit
>> >from vonage i can't make it work with m0n0.
>> >
>> >I already did a test and i connect my vonage phone diectly to the
>> >internet with no m0n0 and it works normally but once I connect it
>> >trought m0n0 it doesnt work.
>> >
>> >Do i need to open a port or do i need to configure something else on
>> >m0n0 to use it with my vonage phone?
>> >
>> >Thanks for your time and patience to give me a hand with this.
>> >
>> >
>> Jesus,
>>
>> I've simply plugged my Cisco ATA supplied by Vonage into the switch
>> which is plugged into my m0n0wall, and all is well. Did not need to
>> open any ports, although I did at one point on Vonage's advice to make
>> my connection better. However, it had no effect on it at all, and
>> Vonage eventually fixed the problems on their end to clear up the issues
>> I was having. So currently, I simply plug in the Cisco ATA behind
>> m0n0wall, with absolutely no special configuration. In fact, I have a
>> PBX that also uses SIP protocol (same protocol used by Vonage) connected
>> to another VoIP provider (Broadvoice) that is also behind m0n0 with
>> absolutely no special configuration for that either, and both work side
>> by side with no problems. Please note that I am using the Cisco ATA,
>> which does not seem to be the one they currently ship out. However, my
>> PBX is simply a Linux box running Asterisk PBX and I have no problem
>> their either. If that works, I would think any ATA would too because
>> they all use SIP protocol to connect.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
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